Europe

The swift angry and determined answer of the workers at Opel’s Ruhr area
factory in Bochum to General Motor’s announcement of 12,000 redundancies
throughout Europe has seized the headlines in Germany. They immediately
went on strike to stop this threat. GM’s plans would mean 4,000 of
Bochum’s...

THE ESF is an off-shoot of the World Social Forum, (WSF) which following
its first event in Porto Allegre, Brazil in 2001, drew up a description
of the WSF as being: "an open meeting place for reflective thinking,
free exchange of experiences and interlinking for effective action, by
groups and movements opposed to...